Three friends find themselves in a bar fight with a shady trio of strangers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jinpachi Nezu
The Five AKA Gonin (1995) Takashi Ishii, Kôichi Satô, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza Read More »
The Black Angel AKA Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 (1998) Takashi Ishii, Riona Hazuki, Reiko Takashima, Jinpachi Nezu
Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying Read More »
Alone in the Night AKA Yoru ga mata kuru (1994) Takashi Ishii, Yui Natsukawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Nami, the wife of a narcotics cop murdered in the line of duty. Nami is surprised to find that her husband Read More »
Farewell to the Land AKA Saraba itoshiki daichi (1982) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Jinpachi Nezu, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Jirô Yabuki
The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio’s two sons. Read More »
Orchids Under the Moon (1991) Takashi Ishii, Jinpachi Nezu, Kimiko Yo, Shû Nakajima
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. Read More »
Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Action, Drama
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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